Holy Week Reflections – Thursday: Dying We Live

Holy Week Reflections – Thursday: Dying We Live

In truth, in very truth I tell you, a grain of wheat remains a solitary grain unless it falls into the ground and dies; but if it dies, it bears a rich harvest. The man who loves himself is lost, but he who hates himself in this world will be kept safe for eternal...
Good News from Wuhan!

Good News from Wuhan!

Fr John Boles speaks to a young Columban who shares words of hope from an unexpected place. Wuhan! A name now notorious as the probable source of the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic. But, for Catholics and especially Columbans, Wuhan means GOOD NEWS. It is where the...
Holy Week Reflections – Wednesday: Sign of our Hope

Holy Week Reflections – Wednesday: Sign of our Hope

It may sound paradoxical, but the fact that the cross of Jesus uncovers for us the mystery of iniquity is itself the demonstration that the basis of our hope is present in the cross. There was infinitely more happening on the rise of ground outside Jerusalem than the...
Holy Week Reflections – Tuesday: The Mystery of Evil

Holy Week Reflections – Tuesday: The Mystery of Evil

The men who were guarding Jesus mocked at him. They beat him, they blindfolded him, and they kept asking him, ‘Now, prophet, who hit you? Tell us that.’ And so they went on heaping insults upon him… There were two others with him, criminals who were being...
Christological Reflections on Holy Week by Fr Brendan Lovett

Christological Reflections on Holy Week by Fr Brendan Lovett

To help us enter into the meaning of Holy Week, we will be reproducing every day next week a reflection by Columban missionary, Fr Brendan Lovett, from his book, ‘It’s Not Over Yet – Christological Reflections on Holy Week’, published by Claretian Publications....